Why, specifically, did Obama expel over 30 Russian diplomats in December of 2016?

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Political theater to set the stage for Muh collusion

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Edited: What were the SPECIFIC reasons he gave for doing it?

And how do those reasons match with what we now know?

Attempted espionage for one thing…

Kabuki Theater

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caused Trump to win

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I’d love for you to link a source to this Obama quote

In the meantime, I’ll answer OP’s question with references to pages in the Senate review:

Hacking:

1. Russian hack-and-leak ops (DNC comms, GRU, DCCC)

Volume V starting on page 170-221 & with additional information starting on page 815

Fun fact:

2. Manafort — who worked for Deripaska & Yunokavych for a decade in Ukraine briefing the Kremlin with talking points for Putin through the Orange Revolution — was exposed on an information exchange with a Russian agent that he failed to disclose. Manafort also worked closely with Konstance Kilminick and PoR.

Volume V — starting on page 32 (the specific reference to Kremlin briefs is page 37)

Hacking again:

3. Voter rolls were infiltrated and there is particularly hard evidence of this in Illinois, but at least 20 states were targeted.

Volume I, pages 10, 22, and 34

4. This came on the heels of Russia’s invasion of Crimea, and one of the biggest Kremlin motives was obviously to advance ideas and propaganda sympathetic to Kremlin goals.

Volume 2 confirms additional targeting of the Clinton campaign, but I’m intentionally glossing over Prigozhin’s propaganda to focus on actual data breaches.

The report makes recommendations on counter-intelligence that resulted in ongoing CI overhauls to respond to emergent threats like cyberattacks and AI.

A subsequent senate CI analysis unspecific to Russia was deemed necessary & outlines threats from adversaries like China and Iran.

And my personal favorite:

Volume 1 — Table of Contents Item VI:
“NO EVIDENCE OF CHANGED VOTES OR MANIPULATED VOTE TALLIES”

I.e. Tulsi’s entire theory relies on framing a sentence that has been an item on the first page of a publicly available 4-year old report, since the day it was released, as new information & the reason for the investigations.

Not the dossier

None of the information in my post above comes from the Steele Dossier.

To perpetrate the hoax/coup, of course

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I do appreciate this irrelevant information

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It’s not irrelevant, though. The entire Russia hysteria started because Hillary Clinton and her campaign fabricated the Steele dossier. Brennan knew the Steele dossier was fake and had intelligence that the Clinton campaign had planned to claim Trump was a Russian asset. Obama was well aware of the Clinton plan too because he was told by Brennan and never said a word about it.

The Russia hysteria that you continue to peddle to this very day, begins with Clinton and her campaign’s bullshite narrative of painting Trump as a Russian asset. You know this, though, you’re just a dishonest person who won’t admit it.

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To convince the public they are bad.

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Keep going...

You can do it.